19 Feb, 2024 Where now for online safety? The Online Safety Act and Ofcom’s consultations By Rory Coutts Fred Cascarini Following the Online Safety Act receiving Royal Assent on the 26th October 2023, the UK has taken a decisive step in requiring providers...
02 Nov, 2022 The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) has finally been published in the EU Official Journal By Francine Cunningham The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) was finally published in the EU Official Journal on 27 October 2022, which marks the end of its...
23 Feb, 2022 UK aims to be gold standard in IP Counter-Infringement Strategy By Parisa Fard The UK IPO has published its five year strategy for protecting IP with the aim of ensuring that IP rights in the UK are some of the best...
18 Aug, 2021 Ransom-where is your money going? Introduction of the Ransomware Payments Bill 2021 (Cth) By Sophie Dawson Emma Croft A number of high profile media and entertainment businesses have been the victims of ransomware attacks in recent years. In Australia, a...
06 Jan, 2021 A New Year, a new approach to digital regulation: the DSA and Online Harms By Bryony Hurst Whilst many lawyers are busy doing their best to guide clients through the unfathomable challenges posed by Brexit and the ongoing...
17 Dec, 2020 Government announces plans for new Digital Markets Unit By Lucy Turner Bryony Gold On Friday 27 November, the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and the Department for Digital Culture,...
16 Dec, 2020 Online Harms in the UK: Significant new obligations for online companies and fines of up to 10% of annual global turnover for breach By Bryony Hurst Yesterday the UK government published its long-anticipated final response to the Online Harms White Paper. Partner Bryony Hurst and...
12 Feb, 2020 Online Harms: UK Government publishes response to consultation on proposals for internet regulation By Graham Smith MediaWrites reports on the Government's response to the Online Harms consultation, the first major development since the publication of...
08 Aug, 2019 What a future without social media ‘likes’ could mean for industry By Bryony Gold As Instagram announces that it is considering removing the platform's public 'like' counts, Bryony Gold considers the impact that a...
21 Jun, 2019 The Online Harms White Paper: whatever happened to online-offline equivalence? By Graham Smith Graham Smith provides the next article in our series on Online Harms White Paper series, considering the fate of online-offline...
17 Jun, 2019 The Online Harms White Paper: Duty of care in the context of online harms By Bryony Hurst In a further instalment of our mini-series on the Online Harms White Paper ("OHWP"), Bryony Hurst examines some of the potential...
05 Jun, 2019 The Online Harms White Paper: Which harms should be in scope? By Katrina Baxter Bryony Hurst The Online Harms White Paper sets out government action to tackle online content or activity that harms individual users or threatens our...